A 31-year-old Ghanaian man is lamenting over an unfulfilled
compensation package after he was left paralysed for life by a police
stray bullet in 2011.
Stephen Arthur who
was shot by an angry police constable whom he failed to give some
requested amount of money, has been paralysed from the waist down
and has since been on admission at the Cantonment Police Hospital.
According
to Ghana Web News, Doctors at the Hospital say as he has urinary
incontinence, fecal incontinence, erectile dysfunction and has his
muscle power reduced, subjecting him to be permanently dependent for the
rest of his life with no hope of regaining lost functions in his
muscles, kidney, and anal.
Despite his hospital
bills been taken care of by the police with a monthly allowance of
GHC500, which was last given to him in November 2016, The
Attorney-General's Department has failed to pay compensation to him
after it was agreed to an out-of-court settlement in February 2013.
Speaking in an interview with Joy News on yesterday, the neglected orphan said:
‘For
now, my condition is bad, I am not feeling happy. I am passing through a
lot because I can't move now. The wheelchair I sit to move around is
broken down’.
He said his family members have
stopped visiting him after learning his condition might not get any
better. ‘I am here alone,’ he let out tears, adding, but for the
courtesies of some nurses he would not get some things.
Mr
Arthur said he has been told the Inspector General of Police (IGP),
John Kudalor is yet to sign his compensation package. "I want him to do
that for me.’
Asked what he would do with the package if approved, he said he would ‘start a new life, ‘I am tired of lying in bed.’
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